And if this darkness deepens, when for me
The new moon bends no more her silver rim,
When stars go out, and over land and sea
Black midnight falls, where now is twilight dim,
O, then may I be patient, sweet and mild,
While your hands lead me like a little child!''


She died in 1893, at Padonia, and was
buried in a bed of her favorite white flowers,
donated by loving friends. In the little graveyard
at Hamlin, one reads ``Beautiful Things''
on a modest stone at the head of her little bed.



EMMA TANNER WOOD.


Mrs. Emma Tanner Wood (Caroline
Cunningham), a Topeka woman, began newspaper
work in 1872. The result of those early years'
work was ``Spring Showers,'' a volume of prose.
After thirty years of study and experience
among the defectives, she wrote ``Too Fit For
The Unfit,'' advocating surgery for the feeble-
minded. The story of Mrs. Benton, one of the
characters, led Mrs. Wood to introduce a law
preventing children being sent to the poor
house. This was the first law purely in the